~12% bandwidth conservation from compressed tunnel

I am getting minimal bandwidth in this location, downloading at around 30KB/s.  So I tried proxying my web traffic through a compressed ssh tunnel to see if it would help at all. Here are the results after my morning browsing, about 1.5hrs of email, forums, texting, etc. Transferred: sent 3073844, received 49053108 bytes, in 5189.2 seconds Bytes